Hand-held portable WWW access terminal with visual display panel and GUI-based WWW browser program integrated with bar code symbol reader

a portable, visual display panel technology, applied in the direction of instruments, sensing record carriers, sensing by electromagnetic radiation, etc., can solve problems such as frustration for internet users

Inactive Publication Date: 2000-02-22
METROLOGIC INSTR
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Accordingly, it is a primary object of the present invention to provide an improved system and method of surfing Web-sites on the Internet while avoiding the shortcomings and drawbacks of prior art systems and methodologies.

Problems solved by technology

In addition to being time consuming, this Web-site surfing technique is prone to errors, causing the browser program to connect to the wrong Web-site or return a message stating that the Domain Name of the Web-site sought after cannot be found.
From practical point of view, this is quite frustrating to the Internet user.

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The illustrative embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the figure drawings wherein like elements and structures are indicated by like reference numbers.

In general, the system and method of the present invention is practiced in connection with a globally-based digital telecommunications network (known as the Internet). The function of the Internet is to provide an infrastructure that supports wired and wireless digital telecommunications throughout the world using the well known TCP / IP networking protocols. In general, the Internet infrastructure comprises Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Network Service Providers (NSPs), routers, telecommunication lines and channels. etc., all well known in the art.

Connected to the Internet 1 by way of the Internet infrastructure (i.e., ISPs and NSPs) are many Internet Web-site Servers (i.e., computer systems) 2 that are physically located throughout the world and whose function is to serve information to Interne...

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Abstract

A portable hand-held WWW access terminal for accessing HTML-encoded documents located on the WWW. The terminal includes a bar code symbol reader in a hand-supportable housing for reading URL-encoded symbols specifying the location of HTML-encoded documents stored in information servers connected to the Internet and supporting the TCP/IP standard. A computing platform is provided for supporting a GUI-based WWW browser program integrated with the bar code symbol reader in the hand-supportable housing. A telecommunication modem is operably connected to the computing platform in order to establish a two-way telecommunication link between the GUI-based WWW browser and an Internet service provider (ISP) connected to the Internet. In response to reading a URL-encoded bar code symbol, the WWW browser program automatically accesses a corresponding HTML-encoded document on the Internet, for display on a visual display panel integrated with hand-supportable housing. A keypad is also integrated with the hand-supportable housing for manually providing information to the WWW browser program.

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BACKGROUND OF INVENTION1. Field of InventionThe present invention is directed to a novel Internet scanning terminal and a novel method for surfing Internet World Wide Web (WWW) using bar code symbols encoded with the Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) indicating the location of Web-Sites within the WWW to be explored.2. Background of the InventionPresently, several techniques have been developed for connecting to (i.e., "surfing" among) Internet Web-sites using a conventional graphical user interface (GUI) based Internet browser programs, such as the Navigator.RTM. from Netscape Communications, Inc. or the Internet Explorer.RTM. from Microsoft, Inc. Notably the availability of any particular Web-site surfing technique depends, of course, on where the Internet user finds him or her self in the Internet browser program at any particular instant of time.For example, if one is currently at a Web-site (i.e., in a particular HyperText Markup Language (HTML) document), at which there is a hi...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G06K7/10
CPCG06K7/10H04M1/72445G06K7/10881G06F16/9554G06F1/1626G06F16/9577H04L69/329H04L67/02G06F16/955H04N21/4782H04L67/04
Inventor KNOWLES, CARL HARRY
Owner METROLOGIC INSTR
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